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college in this sectioln of the jCommonwealth bordering on thei Nation’s capital, that jUnjversity of Virginia aulhorites felt it im

live that another ^cademic not he lost while agreement permanent site forj the College was being worked oUt. Renovation and repairs on the building at B u i 1 y y's Crossroads are being rushed through on schedule! and it is hoped that the paint will be dry when students ai tend the jfirst classes of the two-y^ar college at the end of September.1 Required and elective courses) in the ifirst year of a college derree program will be given during 1957-58, with an expanded curricfi'um in the years that follow.

Although there has been little time for distribution of information about the new College, in quiries which have-been received indication a keen interest in it on

the part of high. sejhool graduates throughout the aijea. Virgiftias will be paying less than half ; the tuition fees that dut-of-Stafcers incur. Application pnd stu4ent

activity fees will be j uniform for all, regardless of ptyce of residdence. i 1

Long a pioneer fo • widespread higher education in Northern Virginia, Professor J. 11, G. Fiqley has been named Director of The Dniveisity College, [t was jess than a decade ago that Professoi Finley brought the University of Virginians Extension Classes to Arlington, and in the Short interval since then he has seen :he annual registrations af the Extcrns'ii-

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ion Center e-limb fr< fifty-five in number U the thousands Never at a challenge, Mr. sees an even more growth in the years ahead for df new University College.

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